It's become unreliable under linux as well. It used to work fine. The whole UEFI including the new si0x or whatever that word is again destroyed a perfectly fine experience all because it seemed like a good idea by microsoft.
I can understand you are like this. Just be upfront about it during interviews. You might be surprised there are companies which are absolutely fine with that.
I'm on the other end, I do think your life should revolve around the thing that you are doing 8+ hours a day. I currently have colleagues which are the same like you and it feels I have to pull them through the mud. Just be upfront about it and find a good fit ( I too should find a better fit 8) )
Or maybe it's too difficult? Or maybe you are just holding it wrong
The unpredictability for using things like cursor or Claude code is just a showstopper and indeed I'm not sure it has ever saved me time in the grand scheme of things
Brother's minor included making webpages. Pure html. That led to listings in a computer magazine for making a guestbook in php more comprehensible. That was in 2001. That was enough to get me hooked. Continued with the java bible and by then there was no doubt, going to do CS in uni. I hated it with a passion. And only 10+ years after graduating I understand the value of it
Oh. Have you talked to a grey-beard about users groups? Computer Chronicles was sort of like having a users group presentation in your living room every week. I learned about computers by users groups, computer chronicles, hanging out in computer stores and a few long distance phone calls to the bay area.
Stop it, you are making me nostalgic for a time i never completely lived through.
My first memories are of sitting on my father's lap as a 3y old, connecting to a BBS. Even as small as that I understood completely that was special. The interconnectedness of our society is now taking for granted, but man how special it was.
At least you got to experience the carol of the modem tones.
A few years ago I used the 1200 baud connect sequence as a phone ring tone. Everyone chuckled, my child asked "what the he'll was that, I think I heard it in a movie."
I honestly never paid that much attention to Computer Chronicles back in the day. But when I clicked on the link to the obit, I instantly recognized him from the photo.
I hope these systems will just actually learn instead of burning through tokens when deciphering what user wants and just uses golden paths instead of reinventing everything when a user wants the same but uses a slightly different prompt.
The incentives of token factories are of course not aligned with the above.
Yah, also there is a huge difference between a minimal demo and actual, recommended, canonical deployments.
I’ve seen teams waste many months refining k8s deployments only to find that local development isn’t even possible anymore.
This massive investment often happens before any business value has been uncovered.
My assertion, having spent 3 decades building startups, is that these big co infra tools are functionally a psyop to squash potential competitors before they can find PMF.
When you're comparing Kubernetes "recommended, canonical deployments" to "just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner" the latter is obviously going to seem simpler. The point is the k8s analogue of that isn't actually complicated. If you've seen teams waste months making it complicated, that was their choice.
If you’re running things differently and getting tons of value with little investment, kudos! Keep on keeping on!
What I’ve seen is that the vast majority of teams that pick up k8s also drink the micro service kool-aid and build a mountain of bullshit that costs far more than it creates.
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